Stranger than usual photo-bomb

Sometimes you just don't know what you've captured in a photo, until you're looking at it on your computer.

I've taken some great shots of the back of people's heads, kids hands stretched up to reach my camera lens and even a person unaware of the action I was capturing, having a private scratch in the sun.

But the other day I was snapping some shots of the last round of the local footy league and I got a great shot of 'Magpie' forward Shawn 'Bunga' Fitzgerald, nailing his third goal of the day.

But it wasn't until I started looking at my images and working out which ones to post that I noticed something strange in the background of this shot.

Sure I got the shot of him kicking the goal, but what was that in the background (see above)?

At first glance, I thought someone had carved the logo of a magpie sitting on a branch had into the hills on the horizon.

Can you see it?

I had to look hard to work out what it really was.

It's actually two crows flying past and at the exact same time that Magpie forward Bunga was kicking a goal, they made the shape of a magpie with their wings and bodies.

Probably more of a fluke than good timing, but I'll take it anyway.

But it gets weirder because it was the Magpies who went on to win the game.

Our brekkie presenter Deane Williams tells me that maybe this was a portent, which as the merriam-webster online dictionary explains means "something that foreshadows a coming event".

Were the crows trying to tell me what was going to happen in the game?

I know another occasion when something like this happened.

It was in 1999 and my husband was the full-back for the Tumby Bay Blues football team. On the way to the Grand Final game against the Ramblers Magpies, a Magpie flew into his car's windscreen and died in a puff of feathers. His team went onto win the premiership and he won best on ground.

Not sure if that was a sign/portent or if it was just a thing that happened one time.

Have you ever taken a photo that reveals something much more than what you wanted to capture. Something odd or a shot that captures a portent moment?

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Comments

Jenia Ratcliffe

Wow Emma, that's amazing! The magpie looks like it is photo-shopped in. :)

bernardo

well ,i thought it was a flying pig which means the 'portent' could be ....if Bunga kicks the goal then pigs must fly .......

Photo Indigo

What's already an outstanding shot was made even better by the photo-bombing crows. Almost as if they saw you pointing your lens and said, "Hey, let's see if we can freak people out by forming the magpie shape."